Mrs. Burns’s Math Modeling class is a collaborative math environment. We blend skills from past math classes, and tackle real-life problems together. We started off the year with number theory and modular arithmetic and then delved deeper into more real life focused algebra and geometry problems. Throughout the course of the year, we tackle puzzle-like problems in class and participate in competitions such as HiMCM and Modeling The Future Challenge.
In this assignment, we were tasked with determining which subjects at Epsilon school would need to hire additional faculty. In addressing the challenge of limiting class size and optimizing education at the Epsilon School of Math and Science, our group, consisting of myself, Sami Wang, Jacob Jiang and Abi Figueroa, first determined the current distribution of students across grades and courses. After projecting the future student population increase, we calculated the student-to-faculty ratio for both the current and upcoming years and strategically added faculty members to subjects with the highest predicted percentage increase in student-to-faculty ratio.
In this assignment, we were tasked with determining the day of the week someone was born.Our approach began by finding the day of the week for a given birthday in the current year and calculating the days between that birthday and October 7, 2023. By factoring in weeks, days, and making adjustments based on the birth month, we successfully determined the accurate day of the week for the current year. Next, we calculated the difference in years between the current year and the birth year, accounting for leap years, and backtracked to establish the day of the week for the birth year. This solution allowed us to find the day of the week for any given birthday.